Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Swarleen Kaur Chandigarh: Haryana state agricultural marketing board has got a mixed response for its hi-tech vegetable and fruit management facilities at the commodity hubs-cum-wholesale markets in five cities, and will lease out these facilities here in about a month. Under the National Horticulture Mission, the board is installing pre-coolers, …
SMALL FARMERS WHO SUPPLY THE TUBER TO PEPSI HAVE BENEFITED A LOT SUNIPA DAS GUPTA & ASHOK GULATI WHEN POTATO PRICES CROSSED THE Rs 20-per-kg mark a few months ago, the consumer had to pay through her nose and cried for relief. In tandem with general expectation, arrival of the …
No one in his wildest imagination would have thought that a state like Madhya Pradesh will become a wheat-surplus state. But, it is now a reality. Due to progressive policies of Madhya Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Mr Shivraj Singh Chouhan, over 40 lakh metric tonnes of wheat is …
The government has said foodgrain was not wasted in the godowns of Food Corporation of India (FCI) due to lack of proper storage, transportation and upkeep during the last three years. However, it admitted that some quantity of foodgrains with the Food Corporation of India in the Central Pool was …
A move that may help check the rotting of wheat and paddy stock kept in the open due to paucity of covered space in Punjab and Haryana, the Food Corporation of India has decided to create 112 lakh metric tonne of additional storage capacity in these two states. While 71 …
As many as 28590 tonnes of wheat was procured from eleven grain markets in Mohali district till Thursday evening. While maximum wheat of 5812 tonnes was purchased by Punsup, Punjab Warehousing Corporation has procured 5791 tonnes, Markfed 5598 tonnes, Punjab Agro 4965 tonnes, Pungrain 3774 tonnes and FCI 2650 tonnes …
With the objective of meeting the needs of agriculturists, the State government would soon come out with an order to help set up agro-based industries including cold storage and food processing units on a five acre land. "Anybody could purchase a five-acre land and start the work of setting up …
The bumper production of potato has led to a glut-like situation in Punjab and if immediate measures are not taken, nearly 1 lakh tonnes of the produce will rot in the next 15 days. The government may also find it difficult to dispose of the over 16 lakh tonnes of …
Urbanization has been mentioned as one possible cause of higher food prices, and in this paper we examine some of the suggested links between urbanization and food prices. We conclude that urbanization, conventionally defined as the increasing share of the population living in urban settlements, is being conflated with related …
Malda, March 28: A group of farmers burnt quintals of potatoes in a Malda village yesterday to protest the lower price for the produce, prompting the district administration to order the agricultural marketing department to buy the crop at Rs 3.50 per kilo. More than 100 growers in Jairampur village …
State Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma today told the Assembly that the State Government was according priority to cold storages and securing market linkage for the farmers so that they got due remuneration for the produce without getting exploited by middlemen. The Minister was replying to a call attention by …
JAJPUR: An increased production of brinjals in Jajpur district has spelt doom to its farmers as the high output had brought down their prices. Besides, there is no cold storage for preservation of brinjal and no industry for its biproducts. Brinjal is much sought after vegetable during marriage season. Farmers …
The main reason for the current surge in food prices is the supply shock due to the drought in 2009 and the carry-over effect of the low growth of food production in 2008-09. As the frequency of such shocks is expected to rise, India needs to have an effective food …
The food subsidy burden increased 82% primarily because of the increase in minimum support price. High food prices in the open market are driving more and more consumers to the public distribution system, leading to ballooning of food subsidy, the Survey points out. The food subsidy burden on the government …
Soil moisture, rising temperature may affect output. The buffer stocks of wheat are already close to 20 mt, nearly five times the minimum stock norms for this time of the year. There seems to be an orchestrated attempt to project a bumper crop of wheat. While the Agriculture Ministry last …
Ranchi, Feb. 9: In an unusual show of rage, farmers are destroying tomatoes to protest low prices and highlight the lack of cold storage and food processing facilities in Pithoria, Bhuiyandih and Patamda, the vegetable baskets of Ranchi and East Singhbhum.
Visakhapatnam, Jan. 31: Worried about the availability of essential commodities to the poor, Union minister of state for human resource development D. Purandareswari expressed her concerns regarding the looming food crisis in the country.
With no word on successor of General S F Rodrigues (Retd), officials put major policies, decisions on backburner With uncertainty at the top in the UT Administration
